September 6th, 2010

Hey guys, you think that Christmas may have something to do with Akari?

Great work, team. Next you can solve the case of Bugs Meany and the Missing Pudding. So in the end, Akari’s story had absolutely nothing to do with anything, was resolved by literally waiting until someone dumped a steaming hot heap of expoition on them, and the only vague tie-in to anything was that Maya asked for ghosts/aliens/whatever for Christmas long long ago. I can understand that because I too am haunted by my desire for an NES back when I was but a wee child, which has turned my life into a hellscape where there are rabid turtles everywhere and the princess is always in another castle. Again, maybe any of this would make a damn bit of sense if they didn’t oscillate between "the supernatural is something nobody knows about" and "we teach necromancy in high school." Your setting is a completely broken, shattered mess, A-1.

At least the music in the resolution scene was nice. Ruined by Maya’s whining and bad voice acting as she ‘cried,’ sure, and still nothing but nonsensical time wasting that added absolutely nothing to any character, but eh. Bunmei was in rare worthless form this week too. After giving a big ol’ rousing speech about how he should be there for Maya, he immediately wanders off for the entire day with Mikaze instead. I’m also not looking forward to what appears to be the entire cast either moping or pressing their breasts against Uchida after Maya’s ‘death’ next week. You are not fooling anybody, A-1.